OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 20 shown for “Myron W. Filley” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 14:29 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis

Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Myron W. Filley

Myron W. Filley

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans, by Myron H. Kimball

Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans

Myron H. Kimball · 1863–64

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified girl

Cabinet card of an unidentified girl

Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Panel with Isis and Nephthys

Painted Panel with Isis and Nephthys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Desmatodon obtusifolius (Schwägr.) Mathieu

Desmatodon obtusifolius (Schwägr.) Mathieu

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks, by Myron H. Kimball

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks

Myron H. Kimball · December 1863

Public domainThe Met
Aphanorhegma serratum (Hook. & Hook.) Sull.

Aphanorhegma serratum (Hook. & Hook.) Sull.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Sherd

Sherd

Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled Jar

Two-handled Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sherd

Sherd

Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing man

Standing man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sherd

Sherd

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feast Bowl

Feast Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd

Sherd

Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon

Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd

Sherd

Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myron Charles Taylor, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Myron Charles Taylor

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myron T. Herrick, by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, 27 Nov 1878 - 29 Sep 1931

Myron T. Herrick

Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, 27 Nov 1878 - 29 Sep 1931 · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 29 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 911725 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 14:29 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.